New York's Other Epidemic

The flu will come and go, but another, far more troubling epidemic appears to have gripped New York: one which, in a post Sandy Hook world, probably needs as much discussion as tragic mass murders conducted by deranged lone gunmen, especially since absolutely nobody appears to be addressing this particular issue. Why? Because, frankly we think the two kinds of tragedies are very intimately connected.

Clark Griswald: Roy... can I call you Roy? Have you even driven cross-country? Roy Walley: Oh, hell yes. Drove the whole family to Florida. Worst two weeks I ever spent in my life. The smell from the back seat was terrible. Clark Griswald: Ooooh. Ooooh, I know that smell.

I spent a month in NYC with my sister for the holidays and there's all types there. I found most don't like him at all, but some that think there's no harm and he's looking out for them. I would say most smokers can't stand him, they pay about $12 for a pack of cigs.

Do your civic duty....start a petition on WH.gov to create a law than prohibits people from jumping to their deaths....but put in the law that if anyone breaks that law, that a new law must be created that will ban all buildings taller than the height possible to jump from and die....you know, because laws stop criminals from acting, right.

nobody would break any laws would they...oh, lets say like.....killing someone(illegal), stealing their property aka guns (illegal), transporting them while loaded (illegal), taking stolen property aka guns onto school property (illegal), destroying school property (illegal) and killing again x26 (illegal x26).....nope, if there was only one more law in this chain then all the others would have been prevented.

Buildings don't kill people, gravity does. And the Pauli exclusion principal certainly makes the landing harder than it would be if two fermions could occupy the same state. And gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces!

They were just squatting on the parapets to take a dump onto the sidewalk below, and simply lost their balance (their one daily ten-minute break not giving them enough time to reach street level and then climb the 20 stories back up).

Gov't sponsored Psyops and mind-control through forced drugging and coercion creates most of these tragedies. Their latest massacres in Aurora Co. and Sandy Hook CT. will prove their involvement eventually. It's the "Agenda" that reveals their intent. "Problem-Cause-Solution" Initiated Locally-Enforced Globally (ILEG).

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Bloomberg is only interested in taking steps to stop gun violence. For some reason he thinks that crazy people who kill with something other than a gun just have to be tolerated. There is a constitutional right to open subway platforms, after all. It's not like they are "assault rifles" or something.

Today, after presiding over the graduation of 1,159 new police officers and announcing that the city was on track to achieve its lowest murder rate since such rates have been recorded, the mayor and police commissioner Ray Kelly took questions from the press.

A number of them were about the latest subway pusher and whether there was any way to prevent similar tragedies.

The mayor said he suspects there isn't.

"I don't know that there is a ways to prevent," he said. "There's always going to be somebody, a deranged person. You can say it's only two out of the 3 or 4 million people that ride the subway every day, but two is two too many. Unfortunately, there are people who are mentally deranged."

"We do live in a world where our subway platforms are open and that's not going to change," he said.

Perhaps we should tan them instead? That would help grow the economy...get people to think "I'm working so that I can then head South and work on my tan!" seriously tho...has anyone in New York thought of declaring "mental problems" an actual illness in need of treatment? Or do we all just stick with plan B and "pull all known medications that treat all known diseases off the shelves"? I mean there was a time when The City was actually had the forefront of this movement. Hmmm. I wonder what changed...

The TSA will extend their authority and initiate the "Tenament Safety Association" tasked with the permit and licensing of all exterior openings on a building. Don't mind the sensor clusters, citizen, they're there for your protection. We will also fine you for smoking or using any illegal drugs detected by our sensor stalks. Video may be captured as well - after all, what do you have to hide?

Yes, I'm not seriously suggesting it - and the thought of all that does make me ill.

Since this is a significant safety issue, you'll have to have an annual re-accreditation framework, which will provide the basis for a whole new "Industry". Just think - there's bound to be a "need" for a BS minimum in "Building Useage Safety Training", with the added business opportunity for providing a postgraduate Masters course for those who want to enter this "booming area"!!

You'll need State and maybe Federal oversight / management, maybe a dedicated Senator (or many) - they'll need office space (low-rise of course) in which to operate, and there will certainly be a need for "high level safe training facilities" to provide hands-on instruction for those obliged to work or live more than 10m off the ground . . . . .

Look at all the NEW jobs you've magically created - and all the new work provided for the ailing Construction Industry (someone's gotta build all these buildings).

Quick - let's notify the President - this MUST be worthy of an Executive Order, don't you think??

if you're going to jump, do it from a bridge. if you jump off a building, theres a chance you land on someone or in a street, causing an accident. so, if you feel the need to jump, be courteous of others. thank you.

No the government needs to embark on a program to equip every major US city with OSHA-approved jumping-off platforms. They wouldn't have to be very high, all you need is provide an uneven surface of broken basalt to land on. They would provide safety harnesses for the way up, give proper instruction on how to land on your head with the greatest chance of breaking your neck, and then take any last statement. It would be really efficient; the police and paramedics would not need to respond, nobody goes to the hospital, and the coronor could have a team on standby at the site (this service could even be contracted out as a savings). In the off-chance the jumper fails to kill themselves on the rocks, someone could be there handy to administer the mercy with an ax.

On second thought, forget the government. This should be handled by a private company and a 50 year franchise, the way cable companies do it. Either the jumper pays a fee on the way up or the government pays the fee afterwards, maybe a bit of both.

So who's in with me? I need about $10M in seed capital to design a prototype tower and to market the idea to local Chambers of Commerce. I figure we can have an early lock on a $200M/yr vertical, with 50 year franchise agreements in 200 major markets by the end of 2015. Just about in time for the end of the entire fucking world. Can you imagine the fees we can collect jumping 300 million Americans?

Please don't make light of this -these people are tormented and in great pain. We ZH'ers are above that. Wall Street greed and fraud has caused millions of ruined lives and thousands of suicides from people in total despair. Some day these desparate , lost and frightened souls will take up arms and fight their oppressors -rather than take their own lives.

I keep one set in my trunk, you know, just in case. I guess two would be better, in case the first set don't work and all...but one is "normal." Or zero really, so many are unprepared you know, but then again...

No, the two problems are not connected. Individual freedom allows someone to take his/her own life, but taking the life of others is a different story altogether. We cannot start a witch hunt to identify all the nuts out there.

I beg to differ. When you have an economic depression , a break down in society and in most cases heavy pharmaceutical involvement...then you have a recipe for people to snap. People snap in differnet ways, it a travesty no matter how you look at it.

There doesn't need to be an economic depression. If you review the statistics, and read the papers in some of the more prominent Psychology / Psychiatry journals, THE overriding reason for attempted (i.e. unsuccessful) suicide is a feeling or conviction that the future is going to be worse than the present and that there is no reasonable set of circumstances that will ameliorate this situation.

Attemptees are often high-achievers, and in this subset the major cause of attempted suicide is being sidelined, or seeing less qualified / experienced colleagues being promoted over them (courtesy of family / social connections).

Cronyism / nepotism therefore has the dual disadvantage of eliminating those who "actually could do the job better" from the workforce, whilst promoting those who are less able (but better-connected).

And that folks is where we are right now, in a nutshell. It's not what you know but who you know; it doesn't matter what Degree you study, rather where you study it.

Don't think so?? Just look around at the "Good and the Great", especially in Banking / Politics.

If you like to "read the statistics", as you say, read my post below. The higest suicide rates in the nation are in the least populated states --- Wyoming, Montana and Alaska --- and the lowest suicide rate is in New York. Even lower than New York is New York City.

Ergo, the "statistics" do not suggest that suicides are often high-achievers. I don't know myself why somebody would want to kill themselves, but I suspect that clinical depression would more often be a likely cause. As that can often be treated, I would expect higher suicides in cultures where asking for help is not acceptable. Perhaps that's why suicide rates are higher in Wyoming, Montana and Alaska, where the residents often pride themselves on their independence and not "needing" anybody's help.